Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe cannot live for ourselves alone.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
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What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?
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Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
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When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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